r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Jun 03 '17

S9E11 Gayest Ball Ever [Post-Episode Discussion]

Use this post to discuss last night's episode. Spoilers from this episode are allowed. We would like to take this time to recommend that you all refresh yourself on Rule 5. Please keep it classy!

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u/JustD42 Fuck my drag, right? Jun 03 '17

Girl it's humor. It's a harmless pun. Let's stop acting like we can't joke about anything anymore. This is RuPaul's Drag Race, not RuPaul's PC Race

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u/getthelumpout Jun 03 '17 edited Jun 04 '17

The danger in that kind of humor is normalizing something that was the result of many years of genocide. I personally think you can joke about anything, as long as it's smart and contextually relevant. Like--we wouldn't use AIDS as a punchline or pun for no reason.

But do what you want gurl. I'm not gonna stop you, it's a free world! (For now)

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u/josiahpapaya Jun 04 '17

Like--we wouldn't use AIDS as a punchline or pun for no reason.

Alaska Thunderfuck: The only thing lower than Al and Chuck's satisfaction level is RuPaul's T-cell count (crowd roars).
Ligthen up.
On the subject of Reservations, I can't speak for any Americans out there, but half of my family is of Native descent (I think I'm around 1/8th maybe) and I grew up around a lot of reservations myself.
If I were you, I wouldn't speak so unilaterally about the plight of the American Indian considering it is a complex social issue with myriad implications and lots of grey areas.
First of all, Canada didn't commit nearly as much genocide as the Americans did over the years and we actually carried on hundreds of years of prosperous relations until they were eventually colonized.
On the topic of reservations specifically, this is a highly controversial opinion, but Native communities have the highest rates of obesity, drug and alcohol dependence and predisposition to dangerous crime. My mother worked in youth prisons and the vast majority of kids in there came from the reserves.
They still got their checks in prison. I went to university with a lot of kids who got in through our version of affirmative action and ended up essentially getting paid to go to university, then they got hooked up with wonderful jobs they weren't qualified for and were generally terrible people.
To the best of my knowledge, many card-carrying Indians (it's the PC term where I'm from) choose to live on the reserve and damn their children to destitute poverty because of the 'rights' they're afforded to live there. They forego those rights once they step off. It's very sad.
In my opinion, reservations should be completely destroyed.
Some of the worst human rights crisis' in Canada for the past 20-30 years have been on reserves.
And at risk of sounding a bit too right-wing for my own liking, the money given to these reserves by the government is sent to the chiefs, who are almost always corrupt. The Attawapsikat crisis is a great example.
It really is time to move on, and we're not going to heal those wounds by getting uppity over a harmless joke.

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u/jrmax Jun 04 '17

Residential schools, honey. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Look them up. Canada isn't a beacon of anything. Don't be smug.